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Conscious of the severity of the current crisis in Venezuela and the impact it’s having on the region Deeply troubled by the difficult situation that the Venezuelan people are in The International Contact Group (ICG) on Venezuela held its first meeting in Montevideo on 7 February 2019. The ICG aims to weld a common international…
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At the initiative of Uruguay and Mexico, the International Contact Group met at Montevideo on last Thursday on Feb 7 2019. Its agenda was to help to resolve the Venezuelan Crisis. All its members were states the European Union deemed to make the cut. Mexico, formerly a member of the Lima Group, sought to define…
Andriy Parubiy The day after the signature of NATO’s membership protocol with North Macedonia as its 30th member, Ukraine did something without precedent : it included in its Constitution the engagement to enter officially into NATO and the European Union at the same time. On 7 February, on a proposition by President Petro Poroshenko –…
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying Question: On February 9, the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey criticized China on the situation in Xinjiang and its relevant policies. What is your response? Hua Chunying: I have noted these very bad remarks made by the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of…
On the same subject: Vídeo : «Thierry Meyssan : El plan de Estados Unidos contra America latina» (entrevista con Russia Today), 22 de Mayo de 2017. “United States are preparing a war between Latin-American states”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Pete Kimberley, Mint Press News (USA) , Voltaire Network, 18 December 2018. « Les États-Unis créent…
Transforming UK Defence to Meet the Global Threats of Tomorrow Malcolm [Chalmers] thank you so much for having hosting this event here today at RUSI. It’s a real privilege and honour to be able to come along. It’s important to start off by asking the question why do we fight? It is fundamentally, to protect…
A move without precedent since the Treaty of Rome was signed in 1958: France has recalled its ambassador from an EU member state, Italy. The crisis between France and Italy started simmering following the formation of Guiseppe Conte’s government. It came to the boil after Luigi de Maio (Head of the Cinque Stelle movement) and…
According to Israeli Channel 12, Iran has constructed a factory to build precision missiles at Safita, a district of Latakia (Syria). The Israeli Press assumes that these missiles – if the information is correct – are meant for the Lebanese Resistance to use to threaten Tel-Aviv (which has attacked Lebanon several times and continues to…
The Turkish president, Erdoğan caused a commotion on 3 Feb 2019, when he declared during an interview with the TV Channel TRT, that Turkey was still keeping up diplomatic relations with Syrian personalities. He emphasized that it was not in Turkey’s interests to cleanly sever all ties in any relationship, even one with its enemies.…
The daily newspaper, Al Hayat, has cited the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sameh Shukri as saying that the French President, Emmanuel Macron, probably put pressure on his Egyptian partner, Abdel Fattah al-Sissi. It is likely that, due to this pressure, Egypt backed away from letting Syria back into the Arab League.
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